President Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan engaged in a brief telephone conversation to discuss immediate political messaging or strategic administrative matters. Although the specific dialogue remains unintelligible and unrecorded, the interaction serves as a point of reference for subsequent deliberations documented in related files. This call reflects the frequent, high-level consultation maintained between the President and his advisor during the 1972 campaign cycle.
On July 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 5:00 pm to 5:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 027-088 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 27-88 Date: July 26, 1972 Time: 5:00 pm - 5:01 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Patrick J. Buchanan. [See Conversation No. 352-4] [Unintelligible]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.